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AUTOMATIC COUNTING ATTACHMENT FOR TYPE WRITING MACHINES.

No. 581,582. Patented Apr. 27, 1897.

UNITED STATES PATENT Genres.

ROBERT T. HAINES, OF EAST PRAIIRAN, VICTORIA.

AUTOMATIC COUNTING ATTACHMENT FOR TYPE-WRITING MACHINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 581,582, dated April27', 1897.

Application filed December 28, 1895. Serial No. 573,671. (No model.)Patented in Victoria August 31, 1892, No. 9,917.

To aIZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT Tnonn HAINES, a British subject, residing at26 Lorne Street, East Prahran, in the Colony of Victoria, have inventeda new and useful Improvement in Automatic Counting Attachments for Type-WVriting Machines, (for which I have obtained a patent in Victoria, No.9,917, bearing date August 31, 1892,) of which the following is aspecification.

This invention consists of mechanism which may be attached to someconvenient part of a type or other writing machine and which willautomatically count and record the nu mber of words and other characterswhich are required to be counted as words, and also the number of foliostyped or written by such machine, in such a manner that persons usingsuch machines who are paid according to the number of words or foliostyped or written, and others who may for any purpose require to estimatetheir work, will be saved the trouble of counting the words andcomputing them into folios after the work has been performed.

In order to count the number of words typed or written, I place incontact with some part of the writing-machine that is moved after eachword typed or written, such as a part of the space-bar or somethingconnected therewith, a lever which either directly or by a series ofother levers and rods, when the machine is operated, actuates a pivotedbar carrying a pawl which engages with a toothed wheel in such mannerthat each time such bars or levers are depressed such wheel is caused torotate through a space corresponding to the length of one tooth. Inorder to record the number of words so counted, I combine the aforesaidtoothed wheel with one or more toothed wheels each carrying a suitablepointer which indicates and records upon suitably-arranged dials thenumber of words so counted.

It being a common practice of type-writers to count certain characters,such as numerals, each as a word, in order to do this I arrange that theaforesaid toothed wheels may also be operated as follows: I provideunder or near the operating bars or levers of the machine a roclcshaftprovided with a series of pro jecting arms, one of which corresponds tothe operating bar or lover of each character that it is desired tocountasaword in such a manner that when such operating bar or lever isdepressed the corresponding projecting arm is moved so as to partlyrotate the rock-shaft, which motion is communicated by one or morelevers to the pivoted bar and pawl above described and so operates thetoothed wheels above mentioned.

In some type-writing machines certain letters (such as l and o are alsoused as numerals, in which case they are counted each as a word, whereaswhen used as letters they are not so counted. In order that this may bedone, I fit upon the rock-shaft a sleeve or alternatively a bar whichcarries projecting arms corresponding to the operating bars or levers ofsuch letters, but normally held out of engagement therewith by a spring,which sleeve or bar may be made to move along the rock-shaft by pressinga knob which is connected by a rod to said sleeve or bar, so as to bringthe aforesaid projecting arms in contact with the operating bars orlevers of such letters whenever it is desired to count such letters aswords.

Referring now to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of thisspecification, Figure l is a general view of a type-writing machine,showing one of the ways in which my mechanism maybe attached thereto.Fig. 2 is a vertical section taken across the lower part of one form oftype-writing machine, showing the levers of the keys and of thespace-bar in section, the counting and recording contrivance being inelevation. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section thereof on line 2 2 in Fig. 2.Fig. 4: is afront elevation of the counting and recording contrivancewith the front removed. Fig. 5 is a front elevation of the first toothedwheel, showing the manner in which it is actuated. Fig. 6 is a verticaltransverse section 011 line 5 5 in Figs. 2 and 3. Fig. 7 is a view of analternative arrangement attached to the rock-shaft for counting certaincharacters as words when required.

The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in all thefigures.

A and A represent the sides of the framing of a Remington type-writer towhich, for the sake of convenience, l have illustrated my invention asbeing fitted, B the side levers,

which are actuated by the spacing-bar, and G some of the various leverswhich are struck by the operator in order to print any requiredcharacter. Below these levers is arranged a rock-shaft D, which maybemounted in bearings in the framework of the type-writing m achine andwhich is provided with a numbe of projecting arms (I, there being one ofthese for each numeral or other character which is required to becounted as a word, and also one marked (2, corresponding to the spacebarlever. This rock-shaft D is also provided with a projecting arm orlever m, to the end of which is connected a rod 6, the other end ofwhich is connected to one end of a lever E. This lever E is pivoted atits other end to some part of the counting and re cording contrivanceand also carries a pawl P. The latter is so placed that it engages withthe teeth of a toothed wheel or disk Q, which has a spindle p. l? iskept in its proper position by a spring S, which also acts to againraise the lever E after the same has been depressed. Upon p is secured ahand or pointer 17 in such a manner that when the wheel Q revolves 1)will indicate upon a dial t the number of times the wheel has beenactuated, and hence the number of words (or characters required to becounted as words) which have been typed or written.

In order to record a number of words or folios greater than the totalnumber which can be indicated upon the single dial one of the methodswhiehI adopt is as follows: Upon the spindle p is secured a toothedpinion f, the motion of which is communicated by similar toothet gearingto the spindles of other pointers, each having a dial, the number ofsuch dials depending upon the total number of folios which it may bedesired to record at one time.

The gearing may be arranged so that the first wheel Q has a number ofteeth (such as seventy-two) corresponding to the number of words in afolio, which number differs in various countries, and the remainingwheels may be arranged in ratios of ten revolutions to one, enablingtens, hundreds, and thousands of folios to be recorded. In order tothrowP out of gear with Q whenever it is desired not to use the countingcontrivance, I provide a lever I, so arranged that when one end of itismoved in the required direction its other end comes in contact with anddisengages P from Q.

As it may be sometimes necessary to record words as having been writtenwithout actually operating the type-writing machine, I provide a leverG, pivoted at one end, having at its other end a key or knob g, andcarrying a pawl P, engaging with the teeth of Q. and kept in its properposition by a spring S in such manner that when the key g is pressed Qis caused to rotate through a space corresponding to thelength of onetooth, and spring S acts to again raise G after it has been depressed.

In order to enable certain characters (such as l and o to be counted aswordsat the will of the operator, Iarrange upon D a sleeve ll, havingprojecting arms h 72, with which the levers operating these characterswill engage when depressed, provided that said sleeve has beenpreviously moved along said rock shaft so as to bring 72/ 7t under thelevers which operate these characters. Such move ment may be effected byseeming ll to the end of a rod 71/, which passes longitudinally throughI), (made hollow for this purpose,) and which carries at is other end aknob ll to be pressed by the finger of the operator. The spring K brings7t 7t normally out of engagement with the letters to which they referafter the operator has ceased to press II. If preferred, however, tobring 7t 7t into contact with the levers of the letters 7 and o, Iemploy the arrangement shown in Fig. 7, which consists of a flat barcarryingprojecting arms a and provided with slots m, through which arepassed set-screws to retain the bar N in position on I), while at thesame time leaving it free to be moved endwise, so as to bring the arms aa into position beneath the levers of the characters required to becounted, together with a conveniently-arranged spring to keep such armsnormally out of engage ment with these characters in a manner similar tothe arrangement with the sleeve II above described, and illustrated inFig.

The operation of my invention is as follows: \Vhenever the key or loverof the spacin g-bar is depressed, or whenever a character which isrequired to be counted as a word is struck by the operator, one or otherof the projecting arms is depressed and causes D to partially rotate,and by means of the arm m and the rod c the lever E is drawn down,carrying with it the pawl P, which engages with Q and extends the springS. When the pressure upon the spacing-bar or upon the keys ceases, thespring S raises the pawl P to its original position and causes the wheelQ to rotate one division or teeth, which is indicated by the pointer 12upon the dial 6, and since the wheel Q is in gear with the remainingtoothed wheels the number of revolutions of each wheel, and hence thetotal number of words and folios, is counted and recorded.

In the case of letters which are sometimes used as numerals (such as land o) the operator must, while striking the keys on the levers or barsof such letters, also press the knob II so as to bring the arms 7t 7&-into engagement with the levers or bars of such letter or letters,thereby causing the mechanism to operate as before.

If preferred, all the arrangements above described can be reversed, themechanism being operated by the upward instead of by the downwardmovement of the rod c.

Having now particularly described and ascertain ed the nature of my saidinvention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare thatwhat I claim is 1. In combination, in a registering device fortype-writers, the registering mechanism, the rock-shaft with thekey-levers connected thereto, said rock-shaft having arms to be operatedby the space-key or frame and other arms to be operated by thosecharacters which are to be counted as words, substantially as described.

2. In combination, the counting mechanism with its inclosing casing, thekey-levers, the connections therefrom to the counting mechanism, and themeans for operating the counter independently of the key-levers, saidmeans comprising a lever projecting from the casing and having a keythereon and having also a pawl engaging the counting mechanismsubstantially as described.

In combination, the counting mechanism eom prising the ratchet and pawl,the keys, the connections between the same and the pawl, a second pawl19 and the finger-lever G carrying the same to operate the counterindependently of the type-writer, substantially as described.

4:. In combination, the key levers the counter, the mechanism foroperating the same extendin g to the key-levers and the connectionsbetween certain of the key-levers and said mechanism arranged to bemoved to and from operative position, whereby said keys maybe connectedto the counter to count as words or be disconnected therefrom,substantially as described.

5. In combination, the counter, the key-levers, the rock-shaft havingprojecting arms and the shifting arms movable along the rockshaft toconnect certain of the keys with and disconnect them from the counter,substantially as described.

In combination, the counter, thekey-levers, the rock-shaft having armsto be operated by the space-keys, the shifting arms, the sliding piecemovable along the rock-shaft and the finger-piece for operating theslide, substantially as described.

ROBERT T. IIAINES.

\Vitnesses:

JOHN hIONASH, ARTHUR G. TnuMINs.

